Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Burg, Franz Josef Von a German theologian, leader of the Ultramontanists in Baden, was born March 23, 1803, at Zell-on-the-Harmersbach. He studied at Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Gottingen, and commenced his lectures at Freiburg in 1829, where he was also made professor extraordinarius in 1833, and in 1836 professor extraordinarius of the law-faculty. In 1837 he … Continue reading “Burg, Franz Josef Von”

Burford, Council Of (Concilium Berghfordense), provincial, held at Burford in Oxfordshire, A.D. 685, witnesses a grant by king Berhtwald, an under king of Ethelred of Mercia, to Aldhelm and the abbey of Malmesbury (the genuineness of the MS. charter is disputed).-Smith, Diet. of Christ. Antiq. s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Buren, James Pascal a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born and educated in Missouri. He was a member of the Arkansas Conference, and filled acceptably five different appointments. He died April 30, 1861, in his twenty-fifth year. Mr. Buren was energetic, practical, prudent, affable, and true. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1862, p. 5. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Buren, James Pascal”

Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions An institution for the protection and promotion of Catholic Indian mission interests in the United States, established in Washington, 1874, by Archbishop Bayley; reorganized, 1894. Supported, until 1887, chiefly by the Catholic Indian Mission Fund, expenses are now paid by an annual contribution from Mother Katherine Drexel, amounting to over … Continue reading “Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions”

Bure was, in Scandinavian mythology, the first man, whose three grandchildren, Odin, Wile, and We, killed Ymir, the frost-giant, from whose body they made the earth. SEE YMIR. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Burdsall, John an English Wesleyan minister, was a native of York. He was converted in early life, was received into the ministry in 1796, when twenty-one years of age, became a supernumerary in 1837 in his native city, established there a theological class for local preachers, and died in York, Feb. 7, 1861, in his … Continue reading “Burdsall, John”

Burditt, Thomas, A.M an English Baptist minister, was born at Leicester, March 8, 1811. He was converted at the age of eighteen, and in 1836 entered Stepney College. He left college in 1840 for his first pastoral charge at Long Sutton. While here he edited for a time the Baptist Record, a monthly periodical of … Continue reading “Burditt, Thomas, A.M”

Burdigalense Concilium SEE BORDEAUX, COUNCIL OF. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Burdick, James Ross a Baptist minister, was born at Leyden, Mass., June 29, 1796. He graduated at Brown University in 1822, and for a time afterwards was the assistant of Rev. Dr. Benedict, while the latter was getting ready for the press his History of all Religions. Mr. Burdick was ordained as an evangelist in … Continue reading “Burdick, James Ross”

Burdick, David M a Baptist minister, was born at Newport, R. I., Sept. 5, 1805. In early manhood he left his calling as a mechanic, and having pursued a course of study in the Theological Seminary at Hamilton, N. Y., he graduated in August, 1839. He was ordained, Jan. 9, 1840, pastor of the Baptist … Continue reading “Burdick, David M”